Healthy Boundaries Tips

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Personal boundaries are the limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships. A person with healthy boundaries can say “no” to others when they want to, but they are also comfortable opening themselves up to intimacy and close relationships.
The Healthy Boundaries Tips worksheet neatly presents standard advice for creating healthy boundaries...

Triggers

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Learning to identify and cope with triggers is a popular strategy for the treatment of several problems—especially anger and addictions—because of the effectiveness and intuitiveness of the approach.
Our Triggers worksheet will introduce your clients to triggers with a simple definition and tips, while guiding them through the process of identifying their own triggers...

Assertive Communication

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Assertiveness is a communication style in which a person stands up for their own needs and beliefs, while also respecting the needs of others. Assertive communication is defined by mutual respect, diplomacy, and directness.
Our Assertive Communication worksheet includes one page of psychoeducation, and a second page of practice exercises, that will help your clients learn to use assertive communication in their own lives...

Back-to-Back Drawing Activity

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The back-to-back drawing communication exercise will get your groups and couples working together, talking, and thinking about how they communicate. Groups are split into pairs of "listeners" and "speakers". The speaker will describe an image for the listener to draw, but the listener cannot speak. Neither person can see the other's paper...

Boundaries Exploration

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Guide your clients in the exploration of their relationship boundaries with the Boundaries Exploration worksheet. In this activity, your clients will be asked to think of a particular relationship, and the quality of their boundaries within that relationship. The second half of the worksheet asks questions that are designed to help your client begin considering ways to improve their boundaries...

Boundaries Info Sheet

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Educate your clients about the importance of healthy boundaries with the aid of the Boundaries Info Sheet. The first page of this worksheet describes the difference between rigid, porous, and healthy boundaries through the use of examples and logically organized information.
The second page of this boundaries printout describes various types of boundary, including physical, intellectual, emotional, sexual, material, and time boundaries...

Genogram Symbol Sheet

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The genogram is a popular tool used by mental health professionals to spot patterns throughout generations of a family. Not only can genograms be used to learn about a family's history of mental illness, they can also be used to highlight patterns of behavior and relationship styles.
For example, a genogram can help your client gain insight about abuse that seems to have haunted their family for generations...

Fair Fighting Rules

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When working with a couple (or family, or individual) who has toxic arguments, it can be helpful to teach them about fair fighting rules. Be sure to practice in session, and come up with a specific plan for how a couple will implement the rules. Share a copy of this printout for your client to keep at home so they can be reminded of the rules when they need them the most...

"I" Statements

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When a person feels that they are being blamed—whether rightly or wrongly—it’s common that they respond with defensiveness. “I” statements are a simple way of speaking that will help your clients avoid this trap by reducing feelings of blame. A good “I” statement takes responsibility for one’s own feelings, while tactfully describing a problem...

Cycle of Abuse

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Learning about the Cycle of Abuse can be illuminating for a client who is struggling in an abusive relationship. Oftentimes, people are shocked at how closely the cycle mirrors their own experience. This printout depicts the common pattern followed by many abusive relationships, beginning with building tension, an abusive incident, the honeymoon phase, and then a calm...

Disclaimer: The resources available on Therapist Aid do not replace therapy, and are intended to be used by qualified professionals. Professionals who use the tools available on this website should not practice outside of their own areas of competency. These tools are intended to supplement treatment, and are not a replacement for appropriate training.